This has been forwarded on behalf of Karen Teeple, Manager Archival
Services, City of Toronto Archives

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Buried Treasure - Corporations & Designated Institutions Working
Together To Preserve Canadian History

A full day is being devoted to the topic of donating and receiving
Cultural Properties or Charitable Tax Credits for private collections
of records and artifacts that have "outstanding national
significance".

In a recent landmark case (1994), Hudson's Bay Company donated the
majority of its records and artifacts to the Province of Manitoba in
exchange for income tax reductions.  The total collection was
appraised at over $68 million and resulted in approximately $28
million in income tax reductions.  This credit was in turn used to
create the Hudson's Bay History Foundation and the Hudson's Bay
Charitable Foundation - a double plus for the Canadian people.

Other private individuals, politicians and corporations have donated
their archival records to designated institutions such as the
University of Toronto Archives, The National Archives of Canada, The
Archives of Ontario, and The City of Toronto Archives  and have
received tax receipts.

The Archives Association Of Ontario (AAO) and the Association of
Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA)Toronto Chapter,  are
co-sponsoring a full day  devoted to donating, appraising, acquiring
and preserving the valuable records that document Canadian history.
The sessions will include such topics as fair market value
determination, appraisal rationale as well as the process for
certifying cultural property.

This conference, in recognition of International Records Management
Day and Archives Awareness Day will be held on Tuesday, April 6th,
1999.

Does your organization have valuable records/artifacts that document
the history of Canada, and are in jeopardy of being lost forever
because of lack of funding to protect them?  This is your opportunity
to meet and hear various professionals who are currently working in
both the archival and appraisal fields.


LOCATION:       The Bay, 401 Bay Street at Queen Street West,
                The Arcadian Court,  8th Floor, Toronto


COST:           AAO and ARMA Members $80.25 incl GST  (Lunch included)
                Non-members $107.00 incl. GST (Lunch included)


CONTACTS: AAO - Karen Teeple, The City of Toronto Archives (416)
                397-7393
          ARMA - Brenda Hobbs, Hudson's Bay Company (416) 861-4148

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"FAX BACK" REGISTRATION FORM

Name:

Company:

Phone:

Fax:

FAX THIS FORM TO: BRENDA HOBBS (416) 861-6688
Registration Deadline - April 2, 1999

Payment by CASH or CHEQUE, at the door only, prior to admission to the
event

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Below is the agenda for the day


        THE ARCHIVES ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO and the TORONTO CHAPTER OF
        THE ASSOCIATION OF RECORDS MANAGERS AND ADMINISTRATORS

Buried Treasure - Corporations & Designated Institutions Working
Together to Preserve Canadian History

April 6, 1999

                                 Agenda

8:30 am                 Registration and coffee

9:00 am - 9:15 am       Welcoming remarks
                        Brenda Hobbs, Manager, Records & Historical
                        Information Hudson's Bay Company

9:15 am - 9:30 am       Corporate Benefits from donating archival
                        records
                        Speaker:  Brian C. Grose, former Vice
                                President and Corporate
                                Secretary,  Hudson's Bay Company

9:30 am - 10:30 am      Caring for one of Canada's most valuable
                        archival collections
                        Chair:   Brenda Hobbs
                        Speaker:  Judith Hudson Beattie, Keeper,
                                Hudson's Bay Company Archives,
                                Provincial Archives of Manitoba

10:30 am - 10:45 am             Coffee Break

10:45 am - Noon         The Appraisal Process and Determining Fair
                        Market Value
                        Chair:  Karen Teeple, Manager, Archival
                        Services, City of Toronto Archives
                        Speakers: Prof. Elwood Jones, Ontario Chair,
                        N.A.A.B.
                        Edith Yeomans, Appraisal Associates
                        Third speaker to be confirmed

Noon - 1:15 pm          LUNCH - In the Arcadian Court Dining Room

1:15 pm - 2:30 pm       Determining Cultural Property and the
                        Assignment of Income Tax Receipts
                        Chair:  Karen Teeple
                        Speaker:  Sonia Lismer, Assistant Secretary,
                        Canadian Cultural  Properties  Export Review
                        Board

2:30 pm -  3:30 pm      Acquiring Cultural Properties/Charitable
                        donations
                        Chair: Marc Lerman, President, Archives
                        Association of Ontario
                        Speakers: Ian Wilson,  Archivist  of Ontario
                        Richard Landon, Director, The Thomas Fisher
                        Rare Book Library, University of Toronto

3:30 pm - 3:45 pm       Coffee Break

3:45 pm - 4:30 pm       Wrap-up Session
                        Speaker: Kent Haworth, University Archivist,
                        York University